Yes.....I Know.......!!

Yes....I know...

It's been almost 2 months since I wrote.

Life seems to have been so full.

A cry I know many of us echo as we try to catch life by the coattails!

I decided that, with all the sitting around, being unable to get out

my mind was beginning to need

 some stretching

so I started doing a course, by distance learning,

with the Open University.

I didn't tell anyone...just in case

I didn't manage to complete it as I didn't want 

to have egg on my face!

I've taken it one assignment at a time..

and so many times I have sat in front of the computer and thought

"I can't do this!"

Yet, I have!

I have so enjoyed the breadth of what I have learnt...

sometimes I have felt angry 

(on the behalf of those that I am learning about,)

other times I have felt frustrated,

as the assignments haven't covered the things that have grabbed my attention

But, I've done it!!

Oh yeah!!

I really can't believe it....

I have completed 7 Tutor marked assignments.

I was telling my doctor this week

and he said

to have achieved an average over the 7 of

77%

when during the study time

I have had 2 major ops.,

have an eye problem which means my eye slowly closes when I'm reading...

...and I fall asleep

(more often than not!)

and also I am on some majorly strong pain killers!

Was really something!!

The next part was the examinable 

component 

of the course

50% of the marks 

and,apparently, if you fail that

you fail the course!

So, I have had my head down for days

...even weeks...it feels!

working at it.

My eyes feel exhausted and my brain

scrambled!

Well more than it usually is!

I have checked... and rechecked...

and rechecked..

and now I have submitted it.

Oh yeah!!

I'm happy about the content but...

am worried

that I may have got the referencing wrong.

However...

I have to stop worrying..

it's done and dusted...as a friend of mine would say!

I have already booked for my next course...

am I a masochist?
No...

I'm really enjoying all I am learning...

and the assignments

help me look deeper and not just skim read.

I have learnt so much about the world we live in.

I started just wanting to do a course

but now am...

in line to do a degree...over the years.

I don't know whether I will...

we'll see!

What I am doing is just....

doing one assignment at a time...

sometimes kicking and screaming...

but, I'm doing it!

and enjoying it!!

I hope it doesn't sound as if I am complaining 

because I'm not...

I'd stop if I didn't  find it so exhilarating!

Otherwise...

all is well!!

Sorry Mum didn't do a post when she was here.

I've got the photos but it seemed to be all go! 

Perhaps I'll manage 

to settle down with her

when I am able to visit her!

At the moment I'm not allowed to drive that far!

My hip is wonderful....don't know I've had it done..

My back is a different story....

It is really painful still.

I asked the physio.... when I last saw him

and he said it would be 12-18 months

before we finally know what's happening....

I asked if I would still be in pain

and he said that I could be.

I said...why the op then...if the pain doesn't go?

He said that I had to have it as 

I would have been in a wheelchair.

I suppose that's one blessing!!

I have been visiting but not commenting ....sorry!

It's a glorious autumn day so

I am going to have some lunch...

and then...

go outside and enjoy a short walk...

coming??!!